A lurker speaks (was: RE: Re: better version of the pynchon list?)

[Dave Monroe]

This is what troubles me about all this shit, though. 
There's no reason for anyone to be intimidated about
posting on Pynchon here, no one is "out of their
league," but the flaming, well ... 

--- Brent Edwards <cbrente at alltel.net> wrote:
> I've been subscribed to this list off and on for
> over two years now. I have never posted a single
> line. There are many reasons for this, but the
> primary one is that I have felt more than a little
> intimidated. I've not been intimidated by the heat
> of the flame wars that erupt here (actually this
> list is rather tame compared to many online spaces I
> inhabit), but by the fact that it became painfully
> obvious to me early on that I was totally out of my
> league....

But I will stress, again and again and again, this is
hardly all Doug's fault, and, here, it takes rather
more than two to tangle, seems to take the visble
population of an entire listserve.  NOW maybe I can
get back to Mason & Dixon ...

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